Benjamin Franklin

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What Did He Do For Philadelphia?

• Became apprentice at age 12

• Started the first volunteer fire department with friends

• Made the first library

• Made a hospital

• Made a college

• Reorganized the mail service

What Did He Do For The USA?

• Sailed to France to ask for help in the war against Great Britain

• Hoped to change the USA in the beginning

• Was sent to England to talk to the law makers

• Was sent to Europe

• Helped write the Decoration of Independence

What Did He Make?

• Swim fins

• Glass harmonica

• Watertight bulkheads for ships

• Lightning rod

• Odometer

• Wood stove

What Was He/What Did He Do?

• A very rich man

• Kept lots of records of Philadelphia

• The oldest delegate in the Constitutional Convention

Other Things He Did

• Was known of a leader of the Revolutionary war

• Returned to Philadelphia as a hero

• Lived for 88 years

• When coming back from France the Revolutionary war began

• Learned how to read and write well in the evenings when he was a boy